Radical Empathy is an artistic collective founded in autumn 2021 by choreographer and performer Tomáš Danielis in response to contemporary social and political developments. The platform is dedicated to the creation and international presentation of contemporary art conceived as sociological probes—both metaphorical and methodological—examining human relationships, power structures, and empathy in today’s world.

The platform focuses primarily on performative art, including contemporary dance, performative stand-up formats with a strong comedic and reflective dimension, as well as intermedia, digital, and visual works. Its activities also extend to original texts for the performing arts, media works, and photography. Radical Empathy operates beyond geographical borders while maintaining a critical reflection on Eurocentrism, addressing current European socio-political realities from a questioning and self-reflexive perspective.

The first series of works engages with women’s rights and the social position of women (Faidrós, Carry, Mainly Love), alongside explorations of otherness, perception, and human relationality (Custom View, Entelecheia). The platform’s initial productions included Custom View, a dance performance premiered at Moyzes Hall in Bratislava on 3 May 2022, followed by the photographic exhibition Entelecheia, presented at Arteska Detva on 11 May 2022.

Radical Empathy’s projects are developed in close collaboration with artists from different disciplines. Key contributors include Tomáš Danielis, Mathieu Le Sourd (Maotik) and Lucas Wilson Spirro (digital arts and programming), Marek Godovič (dramaturgy), Soňa Kúdeľová (assistant of choreography), Ľubomír Panák (music), Lenka Sršňová (costume design), Anthony Rouchier (music), and Samuel Velebný (exhibition curator). Their work frequently engages with reinterpreted musical material by composers and musicians such as Gustav Mahler, David Bowie, Pat Metheny, Vladimír Godár, and Gioachino Rossini, among others.

The platform has been supported and produced in collaboration with partners including Zuzana Pacáková (White Night Festival), Maroš Bauer (Arteska Detva), and additional cultural institutions and producers. Through these collaborations, Radical Empathy continues to develop socially engaged, conceptually grounded works situated within an international artistic context.